@Terry Tater “They are just stealing our money”: unlike the federal government who spends 3 million of our tax money to study hamsters fighting! And 1.7 billion a year to maintain ABANDONED properties! That’s right, abandoned properties. And Medicare/Medicaid improper payments of 48 million. If these aren’t examples of our money being stolen from us, I don’t know what is.

I’m so sick and tired of people keep saying Bernie has too much radical ideas. It’s not radical ideas when you want Medicare for all and raise minimum wage. Other countries have done it for years. It’s time to join the rest of the world.

@Ryan Garcia America is number one in creating vaccines and other medicine’s so other countries around the world can benefit from it. With Bernies plan there will be no more breakthrough medicines. Also doesn’t he want to give it to illegals? Pretty sure that wasn’t his policy in 2016. But the man has flipflopped so much Idk anymore.

Warren doesn’t go after Sanders time after time because she ultimately agrees with his policies while Bloomberg is by far more dangerous to America because he will get trounced by trump if he’s the nominee.

He wants to triple the budget from $2.5 to $7.5 trillion, with the mandatory pay budget of $4 trillion, under the US GDP of $22 trillion this year. Taking 1/2 of all money in the US is no scare, that’s his plan.

I can debunk his whole book in three sentences: When adjusting the government’s poverty threshold measure for shelter inflation there are well over 100 million people in poverty. The government’s metric is 50 years old. The metric is the cost of food each month times 3 in order to cover all typical minimum expenses, but because shelter cost has gone up at such fast rates it should generally at least be the cost of food each month times 6 and should be measured on a locality basis making it be the cost of food each month times 9 in some Metropolitan areas like SF…

Fake news just isn’t the same without the daily Explosive Impeachment Bombshell. But the Democrat debates are usually about Trump, so we have that to look forward to in Charleston. Maybe Pochontas will scalp Bernie rather than Bloomy tonight…always good for a laugh.

I agree. They wouldn’t want a progressive on to challenge when Joe says that decadence isn’t really a problem in the US currently. After all, we’re supposed to just ignore that the increasing gap between the haves and have-nots. And the difference in the wealth of the top 1% and the rest of us.

@Ryan B on their cell phones. Overweight… You clearly have never been to other countries.

Poverty is not having enough material possessions or income for a person’s needs. Poverty may include social, economic, and political elements. Absolute poverty is the complete lack of the means necessary to meet basic personal needs, such as food, clothing and shelter.

@justsaying Bernie Sanders true Blue Democracy by the People ; not Democracy by the Corporations, Fossil ETC…..and the pharmaceuticals and government .. leaving the people unacceptable 😠 Bernie Sanders 🇺🇸💯🇺🇸 2020 2028

@kyle grant – Listen simp, if we update the poverty rate threshold for housing inflation, the number of people under the poverty line is over 100 million. In other words, 50 years ago, over 100 million of today’s US citizens would be considered impoverished.

To answer your last question, the Republicans have the Judicial Branch, the Executive Branch, the Upper Congress, and now the Federal Courts. Republicans are probably the best source on how to win. Democrats need to get it together, they’re about to lose the Lower Congress, as they have more seats in Trump and swing states, than they do the difference between the majority and the minority. The impeachment boosted Trump 10 points in the ratings, that is a very bad signal for the House Democrats. If they were smart, they would be focusing more on that, than the Presidency. If they lose the House, the Republicans hold the entire federal government.

@Alex Hamilton Nina Turner is a favorite of the Sanders supporter crowd. She is an amazingly inspirational speaker. And as a bonus she checks the boxes for Neolib identity politics. I think it is a tough sell, now, for Warren to be VP. But I think a lot of Sanders supporters would be fine with her as Treas Sec. Or something along those lines.

The government does have control over who and how many are within the protected ultra rich classes–and how many are poor all the way down to laboring day to day to live a meager life and dying on the streets of America. Trump swung the pendulum to the wealthy without regard that we still live in a nation where one person, one vote counts despite their income, color, etc. Now that pendulum is swinging hard in the opposite direction.

Trump and his administration of goons, trust-fund babies, and con artist created the Bernie movement of the pendulum back toward center–not Bernie, Warren, or the Democrats, like AOC, that swept the House in 2018. All us normal folk want is a restored balance of power between the three branches (and the media), and checks to those powers that Trump as radically skewed specifically to benefit billionaires, white-collar criminals, liars, cheats, and their accomplices. Pretty simple stuff to most Americans, open fairness and one-half step closer to equality.

YES. This is what people on the right don’t get. Capitalism isn’t bad, but runaway capitalism *is* bad, and it needs to be combined with common-good reinvestments in things like infrastructure, education, and healthcare. It’s a matter of how the system is set up. The right wants to blame the individual – you should have done better in school, worked harder, etc – but the way the system is set up now, it’s inevitable that the bottom 50% will slowly be dragged ever downward in society, while the top 10%/1%/0.1% can hardly fail no matter what they do and will get richer and more powerful simply by continuing to exist.

Only when Bernie is leading, they want somebody to take him down but i didnt hear this message from these Corrupt Panelists aka Political Pundits when Biden was leading. Your bias cant be anymore obvious. 😡

I am not your so called Political Pundit but i am gonna make a Prediction for today’s debate. If anybody dares to attack Bernie in an unfair way or lie about him, he is gonna effing end their Political career.

They’re not wrong that it is do or die now for these campaigns. They just have zero clue of what makes up these coalitions and what voters want. The reality is that most of these candidates are in no win scenarios. They don’t have money to compete and hitting Sanders doesn’t avoid the fact that Bloomberg is coming to eat their lunch with more money than they can conceive of. They’re all also rans.